A Woman Among Cowards

Former president Donald Trump believes he did not lose the 2020 election. Undeterred by the fact that he did, he has convinced a number of Republican Congressional House Members to maintain his disordered view of reality.

By telling the lie that the election had been stolen and that it was fraudulent, Mr. Trump has put in motion a series of events that do not bode well for this nation.

Recently he said that the fact that he lost the election is the big lie. How he can make the truth a lie and the lie a truth is Orwellian reasoning. The fact there are members of Congress who support this is evidence of just sheer stupidity.

But there is one Congressional member who’s stood up to Mr. Trump’s false narrative, and she is Republican Representative Liz Cheney.

She pointed out that for him to say the election was stolen is the lie; more important, Cheney also worries that the public will begin to think that our constitutional system cannot be trusted to act on the will of the people.

Many of Rep. Cheney’s male House colleagues wish she would just sit down and shut up. They don’t want to irritate constituents who do believe the election was stolen.

But rather than speak the truth, many of these congressional Republicans remain silent – and therefore complicit – in enabling Mr. Trump’s delusion about the results of the last election and his later remarks that led to the insurrection on January 6, 2021.

Led by Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the leader of the House Republican Conference, the party’s leadership will most likely strip Rep. Cheney of her leadership roles and replace her with a patsy, Rep. Elise Stefanik.

How odd this is. The same conference that will kick Cheney to the curb for telling the truth to the American public about a deceitful former president has said next to nothing about the reported investigation of Rep. Matt Gaetz's alleged sexual activity with a minor.

Such moral dissonance on the part of these members of Congress is beyond absurd.

Then again, Napoleon once noted absurdity in politics is not a handicap. He had a point – except when it begins to weaken the foundations of this republic as Mr. Trump is now doing.